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<h2><a href="http://www.thisisbristol.co.uk/homepage/Campaign-stop-tankers-laden-aviation-fuel-driving-past-schools/article-1016545-detail/article.html">Campaign to stop tankers laden with aviation fuel driving past schools - Bristol Evening Post</a></h2>
<p class="posted"><span class="posttime">Sat, 23 May 2009 10:59:06 GMT/ <b>Bristol Evening Post,  UK</b></span><span class="comments"><a href="http://www.thisisbristol.co.uk/homepage/Campaign-stop-tankers-laden-aviation-fuel-driving-past-schools/article-1016545-detail/article.html">Go to article</a></span></p>
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<p> Campaigner Derek Little has taken his fight, to stop fuel tankers being driven through suburbs of Bristol, to neighbouring South Gloucestershire Council leaders. The retired architect is heading efforts to send the lorries on a shorter route to the </p>
<blockquote><p> Campaigner Derek Little has taken his fight, to stop fuel tankers being driven through suburbs of Bristol, to neighbouring South Gloucestershire Council leaders. The retired architect is heading efforts to send the lorries on a shorter route to the motorway network instead of being driven through places such as Blaise Hamlet, Henbury and Lawrence Weston. Tankers that carry aviation fuel from a depot in Hallen to airports throughout the South West, including Bristol, can only travel that way because of a 7.5 tonne weight limit on a stretch of Severn Road. It was originally a temporary measure while the Second Severn Crossing was being built but was later made permanent. If the restriction was lifted the lorries could be taken right instead of left from the depot and head towards Avonmouth and the motorways. The road with the weight limit straddles the Bristol and South Gloucestershire boundary and Mr Little, 68, of Gleneagles Drive, Henbury, has already presented a petition to Bristol City Council. He appealed to South Gloucestershire councillors to have the restriction lifted and handed in a 350-name petition supporting the banning of the tankers and other lorries from roads in North West Bristol. Mr Little told a meeting of the full council: "The temporary weight limit on Severn Road can no longer be justified. Before the permanent order was confirmed in 1996, it was stated that 'suitable alternative routes for heavy traffic are available using motorway or A-class roads'. That statement was nonsense." Mr Little told councillors the Department for Transport was willing to attend a meeting to help both South Gloucestershire and Bristol councils find a solution and the campaign had the support of the Road Haulage Association and the tanker drivers. He said: "New developments in Avonmouth and Severn Beach are causing a steady increase in traffic flow. The larger population of North West Bristol is at risk. There are no schools in Hallen but there are four in Henbury alone. "You cannot continue to condemn more than 1,500 Henbury schoolchildren to risky journeys five days a week. You cannot continue to condemn tanker drivers to increasingly stressful journeys." Up to 18 tankers a day use the depot in the winter, and this increases to as many as 30 in the summer, and Mr Little said it would be better for them to reach the motorways by a more direct route. Brian Allinson, South Gloucestershire's executive councillor for transport, told Mr Little: "This is clearly a matter of importance to people of South Gloucestershire and Bristol. I have asked my department to look at it and will ensure you get a full answer as soon as possible." But householders in Hallen are likely to fight to keep the limit in place for their own safety. The road dissects the village and is notorious for speeding vehicles. Most of the fuel at Hallen is pumped underground to Walton-on-Thames, from where it is piped to Heathrow. But lorries are used to take supplies to airports throughout the South West.</blockquote></p></div>
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<h2><a href="http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/columnists/guest_contributors/article6350175.ece">Students pay peanuts but expect caviar - Times Online</a></h2>
<p class="posted"><span class="posttime">Sat, 23 May 2009 20:54:24 GMT/ <b>Times Online,  UK</b></span><span class="comments"><a href="http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/columnists/guest_contributors/article6350175.ece">Go to article</a></span></p>
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<p>Doesnt it beg the question that Universities are run more like a  business , intent of making profit opposed to what it was first set up to do? It's difficult to follow the logic of criticising the Research Assessment Exercise, the outcome of which </p>
<blockquote><p> My husband attended an Ivy League college in the US and paid $45,000 per year for the privilege (no grants/bursaries). For that astronomical amount, he attended lectures with 200 others and seminars with 30 others a couple of times a week. Is that the system to emulate? Kate, Boston, USA Many students incur large debts to get through university with no guarantee of the promised highly paid jobs. While there, they get little support dealing with landlords and other predators of students. Many university teachers have no formal teaching qualifications or aptitude for teaching. t j d travers, riyadh, I do not understand how  7,500 a year is not enough to produce proper teaching. It is at least comparable to the fees being charged by private day schools, which have longer terms and much longer teaching hours. Summer terms at my university finish by mid May and I receive 10 hours teaching a week. Chris, Dawlish, Julian Laite from London. It might interest you to know that if you study law at university you get a law degree (as with any other study you take up) but to practice as a trainee lawyer you need to do a further year long course which costs around  11,000 and that is not paid by the taxpayer. kim, london, "There is no similar exercise to check on the quality of teaching." > >Of course there is. I am a student at Bristol Uni, and I can tell you that we are frequently asked to fill out questionnaires about our satisfaction with all aspects of the Uni experience. SH, Bristol, UK 'There are three ways of resolving the problem BRITAIN has got itself into' Don't you mean England? I don't see much of a problem for the Scots, with free tuition. How gracious is Blair's devolution and Barnett's formula! > >There are elections looming. Please think carefully when you vote! j.b.windmill, Brierley Hill, ENGLAND I entered university the first year tuition fees were introduced. Three years on, I see no improvement in facilities or teaching. All I see is the multi-million pound glorified staff room being constructed on campus; disappointing considering our library and union are tatty and far below par. Katie, Newcastle, The public should not fund the training of lawyers, dentists and doctors, who should be in private colleges. Taxes should pay for the elements of civilised life that private finance will not: classics and poetry. But University Committees are dominated by the medics and the lawyers. Julian Laite, London, The only thing I cared at university was the name on the school. >Chose the best, did not learn anything that was not in a text book for a lot of cash (in the US) but got what I wanted, a piece of paper with lots of latin stuff on it that got me a job where I learnt more in the first three weeks. sk, london, uk I am sceptical. At LSE we have almost half the student population from overseas but teaching quality is abysmal. I can't see how a no cap fee - bursary system would compliment LSE enough to gain the substantial improvement desired. Also. 3,000 may not be much for you, but for some that is a lot. Leon, London, Universities need to drastically reduce their budgets, trim staff, reduce overblown wages and cut out the Labour initiated social engineering. The same wage inflation culture in the city has infected the educational marketplace. How can  7,500 a year be justified as the annual cost for a student? Will, Lincoln, UK problem is too many students at uni- there aren't graduate jobs for 50% of school leavers, which is why g'ment target is flawed. Fewer students means more money per student, without increasing spending or fees.The latter will ensure that children from poorer backgrounds are not put off by the costs. JJ, Perth, UK Making the individual pay more would be disastrous. People from low income families already find the debt with which they leave university a major factor in affecting whether they apply or not. Even I am scared, despite being fortunate enough to have a good job lined up.  21,000 is a lot of money Simon Birtwistle, Cambridge, A US-style system with bursaries etc., will only cover the very brightest of the very poorest, while the mediocre but rich get in anyway. I don't begrudge paying for my education, but I do resent last year's lecture notes, an inadequate library and the way the loans system is set up. Tax me instead! Tamzin, Norwich, Is it just London Universities that seem to prefer to enrol as many 'International' students as possible each year? Doesnt it beg the question that Universities are run more like a business, intent of making profit opposed to what it was first set up to do? Dr Harvey, London, It's difficult to follow the logic of criticising the Research Assessment Exercise, the outcome of which determines department funding while bemoaning the fact that UK Universities are in danger of falling behind China and the USA, against which they are measured using RAE data. Eduard du Courseau, Oxford, Great Britain Everyone knows the problem is caused by the daft policy of pushing too many students to university. We don't need this many graduates, most of whose degrees are pointless, most of whom get the same jobs they could have got at 18, without incurring a huge debt. Helen Freeborn, Nafplion, Greece The blurring of the old polytechnics into "universities" has not helped one bit. Skills are more important than lightweight degree subjects, but the lack of them now drags down all degrees into a wishy washy mire of sameness and low quality. MGB, Dumfries, Scotland A system in which Oxford and Cambridge are allowed to charge more would be a disaster. There are already problems enough getting state school pupils to apply (once they do, they have as good a chance as any). This would make that far, far worse. Robert, Oxford, I'm doing a postgrad course now as a mature student paying out of my savings. I can confirm that standards have changed for the worse compared to when I was an undergrad in the 70s. The lecturers have different priorities now, targets and social engineering compared to real education. John Goode, Welwyn Garden City, UK Its alright for people who have already graduated to say students should pay more when they didn't have to. If universities could offer a decent education in the past, why can't they now they're being paid more? Janie, London, A mature student, brought up on a council estate, my only knowledge of university was 'Educating Rita' I bounced in expecting tea and scones in private quarters with a handful of us discussing the meaning of life, instead I got a 'I won't bother you if you don't bother me and dispirited youngsters Christine, Reading, uk But is it not that the vast majority of lower earners would aspire for their children to go to university? I know of several high school students from lower earning families who have been put off university education by the exorbitant costs. And, your solution is to raise the costs? Well done! Scott McGeachy, Campbeltown, Scotland It is fallacious to say that paying from tax forces the poor to pay for the rich. The poor pay little tax and the rich pay far more. We all benefit from an educated workforce. Dustmen need doctors too. Far better to pay by vouchers, just 400 cheques, termly instead of the current huge bureaucracy. Rob, london, UK Taking 3 years out of the workforce to go to uni is more of a gamble than ever. Potential benefits are lower, odds of not finding a job after are higher. Those who complete a degree (  get a job) will pay more tax on the higher wages they earn, thereby paying for their degree through tax. Julio, York, UK</blockquote></p></div>
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<h2><a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/society/2009/may/24/nhs-foreign-surgeons-policy">'Botched' knee ops put fresh pressure on NHS foreign doctors scheme - guardian.co.uk</a></h2>
<p class="posted"><span class="posttime">Sun, 24 May 2009 15:50:30 GMT/ <b>guardian.co.uk,  UK</b></span><span class="comments"><a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/society/2009/may/24/nhs-foreign-surgeons-policy">Go to article</a></span></p>
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<p> New questions about recruiting doctors from abroad to cut NHS waiting lists have been raised by research that suggests problems suffered by patients after knee replacement surgery at one treatment centre in England were 10 times worse than the average </p>
<blockquote><p> New questions about recruiting doctors from abroad to cut NHS  waiting lists have been raised by research that suggests problems suffered by patients after knee replacement surgery at one treatment centre in England were 10 times worse than the average for the country. Hundreds of people were referred to a centre in Weston-super-Mare, Somerset, where teams of Doctors from Sweden, Denmark and Iceland performed operations as part of a drive to cut waiting lists. About one in five patients had to have their operation redone. The results of an independent inquiry are expected this summer, more than two years after it was commissioned by the NHS strategic health authority for south-west England, but a review of results of more than 200 patients treated at the Weston unit has already reinforced the concerns of orthopaedic surgeons about the conduct, management and checks of surgery at such treatment centres, run by both NHS hospitals and private companies. Earlier this month, the Guardian revealed how a German GP on his first out-of-hours shift in the UK accidentally killed a 70-year-old patient in Cambridgeshire. The incident prompted calls for an urgent review of the way overseas doctors are hired, the checks made on their competence, and the manner in which the NHS shares safety information between trusts, as well as demands for a shake-up of 24-hour cover. Between 2004 and 2006, the Somerset treatment centre, run by Weston area NHS trust, treated not only patients from its own area but also nearly 700 from south Wales. But by early 2007, Welsh patients were being warned they could face complications and were called back for check-ups. Now, an audit by surgeons at the University hospital of Wales, Cardiff, of 224 patients, more than 30 of whom had both knees replaced, has uncovered what they describe as "poor results" which have resulted in a "significant impact on our service". An accompanying editorial in the Journal of Bone and Joint Surgery, printed in February but only now widely publicised, states that the review found 36% of the knees were performing badly and 30 patients had undergone "revision", giving a failure rate of 22% for re-operation and 15% for aseptic loosening, a problem arising from particles being released by the replacement joint. These revision rates are 10 times those reported by the National Joint Registry for hip and knee replacements in England between 2003 and 2006. Stephen Cannon, the editorial's author and past president of the British Orthopaedic Association, said it continued to have concerns about clinical outcomes in some parts of the country. He said: "What is evident is that major orthopaedic surgery does not seem to travel well. "The greatest concern, however, must be about the selection of surgeons. It is obvious that inclusion on the specialist register is not a hallmark of quality, and many of these visiting surgeons require further training and mentoring in order to be safe and effective."</blockquote></p></div>
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<h2><a href="http://www.thisiswiltshire.co.uk/news/4393098.Appeal_after_assault_in_Devizes/">Appeal after assault in Devizes - This is Wiltshire.co.uk</a></h2>
<p class="posted"><span class="posttime">Sun, 24 May 2009 15:45:25 GMT/ <b>This is Wiltshire.co.uk,  UK</b></span><span class="comments"><a href="http://www.thisiswiltshire.co.uk/news/4393098.Appeal_after_assault_in_Devizes/">Go to article</a></span></p>
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<p> By Alana Lewis      Police are appealing for witnesses to an assault which took place in Wick Lane in Devizes between 5pm and 6pm yesterday. Officers would like to hear from a male described as white, in his 30s, over 5' 8" tall with short hair. </p>
<blockquote><p> 4:41pm Sunday 24th May 2009     Police are appealing for witnesses to an assault which took place in Wick Lane in Devizes between 5pm and 6pm yesterday. Officers would like to hear from a male described as white, in his 30s, over 5' 8" tall with short hair. He was wearing three-quarter length combat trousers and a distinctive scarf from his right eye to his ear lobe. Anyone who was in the area or has any information is urged to contact acting DI Louise Morley on 08454087000 or Crimestoppers anonymously on 0800 555 111.</blockquote></p></div>
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